Eight years ago this week, a European mission went where no probe had gone before — Saturn's huge moon Titan — and a new video animation is recounting that historic landing by the Huygens spacecraft.

As NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft begins its final eight months of operation, scientists are looking back at one of the mission's most dramatic moments: the landing of the piggyback Huygens ...

The ESA's Cassini-Huygens mission achieved the first landing on a moon beyond Earth's, specifically Saturn's moon Titan, in 2005. The Huygens lander, detached from the Cassini probe in December 2004, ...

Cassini/Huygens scientists have discovered exactly where on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Huygens probe landed last January. Knowing the landing location will allow ...

NASA has released a video showing a simulation of the Huygens probe's descent and landing on Saturn's moon, Titan. This probe's landing is notable as the most distant landing to ever take place on ...

A puzzling image from the Huygens probe's 2005 Titan landing, showing river-like channels, continues to intrigue scientists.

Celebrate the end of the Cassini mission with a look back at when the Huygens probe's landing on Saturn's moon Titan. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with ...

You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System. You must have tested your spacecraft to its limits to be sure it will ...

Ten years ago Nasa and the ESA landed a probe on Titan. It marked humanity's first landing in the outer solar system and sent back stunning pictures of that distant world. To mark the occasion a video ...

This essay is an entry in our "Dear Spacecraft" series, where we ask writers, scientists, and astronomy enthusiasts to share why they feel personally connected to robotic space explorers. I owe you ...

The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that most waves on Titan's lakes ...

The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research has found that most waves on Titan's lakes reach only about 1 centimeter high. The lakes ...